INDEX.

Achæan, curious mode of warfare, 131

Alexander II. of Russia, 3, 10

Armed neutrality, the, 86

Armour, 55, 224

Ashantee battle song, 86

Balloonists in war, 148

Battles, allusions to:

Agincourt, 201, 262

Bouvines, 194

Camperdown, 80

Crecy, 9, 54

Dover, 84

Musselborough, 56

Navarette, 59

Neerwinden, 6

Nicopoli, 56

Nile, 81

Otterbourne, 196

Pavia, 141

Poitiers, 207

Tel-el-Kebir, 253

Bearskin hats, 223, 224

Becon, Thomas, on military service in the sixteenth century, 208

Bishops in war, 35, 52-3, 193-8, 261

Blinding of prisoners, 42-3

Blockade, effective, 92

Bloodhounds used in war, 171-2

Bombardment, theory and practice of, 12, 15, 17, 106, 116

Bounties for scalps, 156

Brigand, meaning of, 57

Britons, love for military life, 156

Brussels Conference on laws of war, 10, 94, 95, 105, 123, 130, 141-6-7-8, 158

Bullinger, limits to right of military service, 208, 263

Cannons, 5

Cannon-shot oath, 130

Capitulations, 100-1

Chain-shot, 6

Chivalry, age of, 32

Church, influence of, on war, 52, 185-193, 204-16, 252

Churches, destruction of, 48

Church parade, 219

Cities, fate of, in war:

Amiens, surprise of, 148

Badajoz, storming of, 27

Barcelona, siege of, 138

Brescia, storming of, 103

Calais, siege of, 44

Constantine, storming of, 27

Copenhagen, bombardment of, 15, 268

Dinant, storming of, 102

Gaza, storming of, 107

Grammont, massacre at, 35

Gravelines, massacre at, 36

Haarlem, siege of, 97

Liège, storming of, 102

Limoges, massacre at, 37

Londonderry, siege of, 197-8

Magdeburg, massacre at, 27, 112

Malta, siege of, 97

Meaux, surrender of, 45, 101

Mirandola, siege of, 197

Oudenarde, siege of, 47

Pekin, English at, 237

Persepolis, burning of, 108

Poitiers, massacre at, 34

Rome, sack of, 103

Rouen, surrender of, 47, 101

San Sebastian, storming of, 28

Strasburg, bombardment of 15, 17, 106

Terouanne, destruction of, 137

Thebes, sack of, 103

Toledo, siege of, 42

Tyre, siege of, 108

Ulm, surprise of, 149

Washington, English in, 16

Conference stratagem, 136

Conscription, the, 242-8

Consecration of banners, 201

Contraband, 88

Contributions, military, 20, 118

Costume, military, 222-3

Crossbow, 4, 133

Cruelty and courage, 110

Custom of war, character of, 186, 210

Decimation, story of, 222

Declaration of Paris, 73, 78, 86-9

Declaration of St. Petersburg, 2, 3, 81

Declaration of war, 19, 198

Desertion, 230-1

Discipline, 7, 218, 234, 236

Dress, philosophy of military, 229

Duty, 74, 121, 264

Embargoes, 89

Explosive bullets, 1-2, 81

False flag, stratagem of the, 128-130

False information in war, 152

Fecials, Roman, 271

Firearms, feeling against, 5, 226

Fireships, 84-5

Flogging, 234-5

Forged despatches, 151

Free Companies, 60, 260

Free ships, free goods, 87

Fruit-trees, 16, 17, 47, 161

Germans, the, in war, 40, 106, 115-9

Greek fire, 83-4

Grenadiers, 223

Hanging in war, 44-7

Honour, variable notions of, 155-6, 267

Hostages, taking of, revived, 117

Innocent III., 206

Invention of the bayonet, 6

Jomini, Baron, President of Brussels Conference, 95

Julius II., story of, 196

Jus Angariæ, 90

Justice in war, 208, 258-9, 271, 273-80

Khonds, theory of war, 203

Kidnapping soldiers in Germany, 241

Kissing the earth, custom of, 201

Lateran Council, Third, 4

Laws of war among savages, 159

Lent, observation of, in war, 51, 205

Leo the Great, 204

Letters of marque, 74, 78

Letters, military contempt for, 156

Limoges, Council of, 203

Loha Pennu, an Indian war-god, 203

Macedonian warfare, 133

Magic, use of, in war, 199

Malingering, 231-4

Marriage, restrictions on, 218-9

Mercenary service, 260-3

Military cant, 21, 105-6, 118, 163

— vandalism, 16, 48, 163, 237

Missionaries, 176-182

— failure of, 177

— legal control of, 181

Missionaries, Norwegian, in Zululand, 179

Mission stations destroyed, 180

Mozley, Canon, on war, 212

Musket, 5, 133

Mutiny Act, first, 265

Names of weapons, 200

Neutral ships and property, 86

Night attacks, 133

Numbers slain in war, 8-10

Oath, military, 264-5

Oath by cannon-shot, 130

Ophthalmia, artificial, 233

Palatinate, devastation of the, 17, 267

Pay, soldiers’, 239, 261

Perfidy, cases of, 135

Perjury, cases of, 139

Perpetual peace, Von Moltke on, 119

Piracy, 67-70, 255

Plunder of property at sea, 67-70

Plunder of property on land, 61-3, 66, 118

Poison, use of, in war, 13, 14, 172-3

Poisoning the air, 49

Poisoning water, 14, 29

Press, influence of, in war, 112, 177, 182, 253

Prisoners, treatment of, 17, 18, 40, 85, 99, 113

Prisoners, beheaded, 97, 106

— blinded, 43

— burnt, 103, 111

— drowned, 101-2-6

— hung, 46, 101-3

— maimed, 43, 103

— massacred, 41, 111

— tortured, 194

Privateering, 70-9

— Lord Nelson on, 77

Prizes and prize-money, 70

Prize Court, 76

Punishments, military, 221-6

Purificatory battle rites, 250

Pursers on privateers, 76

Recruiting, difficulty of, 240

— former system of, in France and Germany, 241

Red, the military colour, 223

Red-hot shot, 5, 83

Reprisals, 93-118

— savage German, 117-8

Right of search, 88

Right of wreck, 89

Roman warfare, 114, 132, 271-2

Sacred buildings in war, 16, 48-9

Sea battles, 80, 83

Scalping enemies, 170

Sentry-go, 229

Slavery, influence of its cessation on war, 112

Socialism, chief cause of, 245-8

Soldiers of mark:

Alaric, 204

Alexander the Great, 107-10, 133

Barbarossa, 100

Bayard, 6, 57, 149, 151, 165, 201, 226, 273

Bertrand du Guesclin, 40-1, 44

Black Prince, the, 37, 59

Blücher, 16, 17

Cæsar, 98, 156, 169, 272

Catinat, 145

Chandos, Sir John, 55

Charles of Anjou, 100

Charles the Bold, 111

Charles XII. of Sweden, 133, 226

Crillon, 22, 73, 243

Custine, 145

David, king of the Jews, 111, 251

David I. of Scotland, 111

Des Adretz, 111

Edward I., 106

Edward III., 44

Eugene, Prince, 149

Feuquières, 97, 138, 149

Francis I., 140

Francis de Vere, 104

Frederick the Great, 16, 142

Genseric, 205

Godfrey de Bouillon, 100

Gustavus Adolphus, 19-20, 22, 221

Henri Quatre, 30

Henry V., 101

Keppel, Admiral, 270

Manny, Sir Walter, 44, 57

Maurice, Prince, 150

Montluc, 107, 121, 133, 137, 145, 156

Moltke, 119

Orange, Prince of, 152

Parma, Prince of, 146

Pélissier, 165

Peterborough, Lord, 138

Pyrrhus, 157

Richard I., 111, 195

Saxe, Marshal, 226

Scipio, 146

Sertorius, 143, 145

Sully, 30

Suwarrow, 238

Wellington, Duke of, 20, 236

Wolseley, Lord, 143-4, 151, 244

Xerxes, 47, 99, 146

Spaniards in war, 40, 42, 97, 167-9, 200

Spies, 141-8

Vattel on, 141

Frederick the Great on, 142

Lord Wolseley on, 143-4

Storming cities, 27, 238

Surprises, 148-9

Surrender at discretion, 45, 100, 123

Ternate, island of, 131

Torpedoes, first use of, 5

— introduced into European warfare, 85

Treatise on Tactics by Leo VI., 83

Truce of God, 205

War, real character of, 27, 186, 210

Wars, abolition of private, 205, 227

Weapons, 50

Women, imprisoned in war, 38

Women and children, slaughter of, 23, 33-8, 117

Women as soldiers, 242

Writers, &c.:

Arrian, 109

Bluntschli, 127

Bynkershoeck, 14, 127

Cicero, 114, 126

Descartes, 254

Dobritzhoffer, 160

Emerigon, 73

Erasmus, 186, 244

Froissart, 23

Frontinus, 134

Grotius, 14, 17, 23, 126, 187, 256, 258, 273

Hallam, 32, 50

Hautefeuille, 67

Kant, 23, 30

Las Casas, 167

Molloy, 77

Origen, 190

Palmerston, Lord, 227

Penn, 173

Polyænus, 135

Quintus Curtius, 109

St. Pierre, Abbé, 30

Sepulveda, 167

Tertullian, 189

Turner, Sir James, 259

Valin, 73

Vattel, 14, 18, 21, 73, 104-5, 139, 141, 266

Vauban, 15

Victor Hugo, 252

Voltaire, 210, 267-8

Whewell, 67

Wycliffe, 193

Zwingli, 263

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